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href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE" title="Гедо – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Гедо" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobolka_Gedo" title="Gobolka Gedo – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Gobolka Gedo" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geedo" title="Geedo – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Geedo" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regi%C3%B3n_de_Gedo" title="Región de Gedo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Región de Gedo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D9%88" title="جدو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="جدو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B2%8C%EB%8F%84%EC%A3%BC" title="게도주 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="게도주" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zu mw-list-item"><a href="https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo,_Somaliya" title="Gedo, Somaliya – Zulu" lang="zu" hreflang="zu" data-title="Gedo, Somaliya" data-language-autonym="IsiZulu" data-language-local-name="Zulu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>IsiZulu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghedo" title="Ghedo – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ghedo" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A1_%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%92%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98" title="გედოს რეგიონი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="გედოს რეგიონი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%83%89%E5%B7%9E" title="ゲド州 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ゲド州" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Gedo" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BE_(%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8)" title="Гедо (Сомали) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Гедо (Сомали)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%99%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%9D_%E0%B6%9A%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%B4%E0%B6%BA,_%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%9D%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%8F%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%80" title="ගෙඩෝ කලාපය, සෝමාලියාව – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="ගෙඩෝ කලාපය, සෝමාලියාව" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedo" title="Gedo – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="Gedo" 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.longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Gedo&params=2_26_17_N_41_29_3_E_type:adm1st_region:SO-GE_source:nlwiki"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">2°26′17″N</span> <span class="longitude">41°29′3″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">2.43806°N 41.48417°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">2.43806; 41.48417</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Flag_of_Somalia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Somalia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/States_and_regions_of_Somalia" title="States and regions of Somalia">Regional State</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Flag_of_Jubaland_%28Somalia%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jubaland_%28Somalia%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Flag_of_Jubaland_%28Somalia%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Jubaland_%28Somalia%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Flag_of_Jubaland_%28Somalia%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Jubaland_%28Somalia%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Jubaland" title="Jubaland">Jubaland</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Capital</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Garbaharey" class="mw-redirect" title="Garbaharey">Garbaharey</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Government<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Governor</th><td class="infobox-data">Mohamed Hussein Al-Qaadi</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">85,000 km<sup>2</sup> (33,000 sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">914.4 m (3,000 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(2019<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1,566,300</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">18/km<sup>2</sup> (48/sq mi)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B3" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+3">UTC+3</a> (<a href="/wiki/East_Africa_Time" title="East Africa Time">EAT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data nickname"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-2:SO" title="ISO 3166-2:SO">SO-GE</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">HDI</a> (2021)</th><td class="infobox-data">0.318<sup id="cite_ref-GlobalDataLab_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GlobalDataLab-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}</style><span class="tmp-color" style="color:#500">low</span> · <a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_Somalia_by_Human_Development_Index" title="List of regions of Somalia by Human Development Index">9th of 18</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Gedo</b> (<a href="/wiki/Somali_language" title="Somali language">Somali</a>: <i lang="so">Gedo</i>, <a href="/wiki/Maay_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Maay language">Maay</a>: <i lang="ymm">Gethy</i>, <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a>: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">جيذو</span>, <a href="/wiki/Italian_language" title="Italian language">Italian</a>: <i lang="it">Ghedo</i> or <i>Ghedu</i>) is an administrative region (<i><a href="/wiki/States_and_regions_of_Somalia" title="States and regions of Somalia">gobol</a></i>) in <a href="/wiki/Jubaland" title="Jubaland">Jubaland</a>, southern <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a>. Its regional capital is <a href="/wiki/Garbahaarreey" class="mw-redirect" title="Garbahaarreey">Garbahaarreey</a>. The region was formed during 1974<sup id="cite_ref-Nordic7_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nordic7-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is bordered by the <a href="/wiki/Ogaden" title="Ogaden">Ogaden</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, the <a href="/wiki/North_Eastern_Province_(Kenya)" title="North Eastern Province (Kenya)">North Eastern Province</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>, and the Somali regions of <a href="/wiki/Bakool" title="Bakool">Bakool</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bay,_Somalia" title="Bay, Somalia">Bay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jubbada_Dhexe" class="mw-redirect" title="Jubbada Dhexe">Jubbada Dhexe</a> (Middle Juba), and <a href="/wiki/Jubbada_Hoose" class="mw-redirect" title="Jubbada Hoose">Jubbada Hoose</a> (Lower Juba) further down east. The southern parts of Gedo, west of the <a href="/wiki/Jubba_River" title="Jubba River">Jubba River</a>, used to be part of the old British Trans-Juba region during half of the seventy years of <a href="/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa" title="Scramble for Africa">colonial era in Africa</a> from 1890 to 1960. The <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> and <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italians</a> fought twice over this area.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The regional capital is <a href="/wiki/Garbaharey" class="mw-redirect" title="Garbaharey">Garbaharey</a>. </p><p>President <a href="/wiki/Siad_Barre" title="Siad Barre">Siad Barre</a>'s forces withdrew to Gedo following the collapse of the <a href="/wiki/Somali_Democratic_Republic" title="Somali Democratic Republic">Somali Democratic Republic</a> in the early 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After 1991, the <a href="/wiki/Somali_National_Front" title="Somali National Front">Somali National Front</a> <a href="/wiki/Omar_Haji_Mohamed" title="Omar Haji Mohamed">Omar Haji Mohamed</a> held large parts of the region for many years.<sup id="cite_ref-HajiSNF_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HajiSNF-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In collaboration with the SNF,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gedo joined the growing trend of <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Courts_Union" title="Islamic Courts Union">Islamic Courts</a> at the start of the <a href="/wiki/Somali_Civil_War" title="Somali Civil War">Somali Civil War</a> and local sharia courts succeeded in making <a href="/wiki/Luuq_District" title="Luuq District">Luuq District</a> one of Somalia's safest areas for much of the 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The militant religious group <a href="/wiki/Al-Itihaad_al-Islamiya" title="Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya">al-Itihaad al-Islamiya</a> (AIAI) also rose to power in the region later, taking over the city of <a href="/wiki/Luuq" title="Luuq">Luuq</a> as its headquarters.<sup id="cite_ref-Nordic7_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Nordic7-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Ethiopian_National_Defence_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethiopian National Defence Force">Ethiopian National Defence Force</a> then entered the area to attack AIAI's bases in 1996. The first democratically elected governor of the administrative region was <a href="/wiki/Hussein_Farey" title="Hussein Farey">Hussein Farey</a>, who entered office in 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Districts">Districts</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gedo&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Districts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gedodistricts.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Gedodistricts.jpg/250px-Gedodistricts.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="342" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Gedodistricts.jpg/330px-Gedodistricts.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Gedodistricts.jpg 2x" data-file-width="373" data-file-height="579" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>Gedo Region consists of seven districts:<sup id="cite_ref-CEWERU16_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEWERU16-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-PIUGedo_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PIUGedo-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Stados_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Stados-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/El_Wak_District" title="El Wak District">El Wak District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bardhere_District" title="Bardhere District">Bardhere District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balet_Hawo_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Balet Hawo District">Balet Hawo District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doolow_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Doolow District">Doolow District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garbahaarreey_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Garbahaarreey District">Garbahaarreey District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luuq_District" title="Luuq District">Luuq District</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buurdhuubo_District" class="mw-redirect" title="Buurdhuubo District">Buurdhuubo District</a></li></ul> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Dawa_River" title="Dawa River">Dawa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jubba_River" title="Jubba River">Jubba</a> rivers are the two major rivers of the region. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gedo&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gedo&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2024</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gedo&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The city of <a href="/wiki/Garbahaarreey" class="mw-redirect" title="Garbahaarreey">Garbahaarreey</a> and the region's two ancient cities of <a href="/wiki/Luuq" title="Luuq">Luuq</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bardera" class="mw-redirect" title="Bardera">Bardera</a> had education systems up to the secondary level. There were some technical schools in Bardera and Garbaharreey, albeit without a curriculum. They are connected through the <a href="/wiki/Gedo_Education_Committee" title="Gedo Education Committee">Gedo Education Committee</a>. All of Gedo region's high school graduates attended the <a href="/wiki/Somali_National_University" title="Somali National University">Somali National University</a> or affiliated institutions in <a href="/wiki/Mogadishu" title="Mogadishu">Mogadishu</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Since the civil war in Somalia, Gedo became one of half dozen regions which have restarted higher education institutions in the country. <a href="/wiki/Bardera_Polytechnic" title="Bardera Polytechnic">Bardera Polytechnic</a>, Gedo's first college, and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Gedo" title="University of Gedo">University of Gedo</a>, are both located in Bardera. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gedo&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to a 1994 <a href="/wiki/UNOSOM_II" class="mw-redirect" title="UNOSOM II">UNOSOM II</a> estimate, the population of Gedo was about 590,000. The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Development_Programme" title="United Nations Development Programme">United Nations Development Programme</a> estimated the total population in 2005 at 328,378;<sup id="cite_ref-CEWERU16_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CEWERU16-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and UN estimates from 2014 stand at some 508,000.<sup id="cite_ref-SomPop14_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SomPop14-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gedo&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The economy mostly depends on livestock and farming, but the Gedo region has strong interregional and international cross-border trade with Kenya and to some extent with Ethiopia. Trade across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia allowed the Gedo region to be economically stable for the years before the UN intervention and afterward. The 1998 Nordic Fact Finding Mission prepared a report on the Gedo region and found some encouraging economic figures. <a href="/wiki/Davidson_College" title="Davidson College">Davidson College</a> assistant professor <a href="/wiki/Ken_Menkhaus" class="mw-redirect" title="Ken Menkhaus">Ken Menkhaus</a> said that "Traders in Gedo region made more profit than, for instance, those in Hargeisa, in north-western Somalia."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Trade going through the border between the three countries was ongoing despite the raging civil war in Somalia for much of the 1990. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Government">Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gedo&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gedo region has a 32-member assembly body. The members are directly elected from the seven districts of the region with proportionality according to district population. The Gedo assembly or (Gollaha Gobalka Gedo) works with the federal government based in Mogadishu. Regional level posts include:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <ul><li>Governor</li> <li>Vice Governor</li> <li>Inter-Regional Affairs Director</li> <li>Director of Security Services</li> <li>Gedo Regional Police Commander</li> <li>Director of Education Services</li> <li>Director of Agricultural Agency</li> <li>Director of Economic Affairs</li> <li>Livestock and Forestry Dept. Director</li> <li>Director of Justice and Religious Affairs</li></ul> <p>After long conflicts in the region, the regional elders started a peace conference with initiatives from the then governor, <a href="/wiki/Aden_Ibrahim_Aw_Hirsi" title="Aden Ibrahim Aw Hirsi">Aden Ibrahim Aw Hirsi</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> This effort ended in success. and were followed by the elections of the regional assembly. The process was financed by UNDP.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In addition to regional posts, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Government_of_Somalia" title="Federal Government of Somalia">Federal Government of Somalia</a> maintains military forces in the region. Brigade 9 of <a href="/wiki/Division_60_(Somalia)" title="Division 60 (Somalia)">Division 60 (Somalia)</a> was reported in the region as of 2016, originating from a U.S.-funded pilot programme that began in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Cities_and_towns">Cities and towns</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gedo&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Cities and towns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Bardera" class="mw-redirect" title="Bardera">Bardera</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Buulo_Haawo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Buulo Haawo (page does not exist)">Buulo Haawo</a> cities are the two principal cities of the Gedo region. In the recent past, <a href="/wiki/Luuq" title="Luuq">Luuq</a> or Lugh used to be the main political city of the Gedo Region, but the Somali Civil War made many of the city's residents to flee to other towns. </p><p>Bardera, the largest city and the seat of the most populous district in Gedo, has become urbanized to the extent that its population multiplied 400% since the breakdown of law and order in the capital of the country, Mogadishu. Aside from the urban population in proper Bardera, the rest of the region's population are <a href="/wiki/Pastoralism" title="Pastoralism">pastoralists</a> with the exception of people living in the cities where the region's seven district seats are located. The town is home to <a href="/wiki/Bardera_Polytechnic" title="Bardera Polytechnic">Bardera Polytechnic</a> as well as the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Gedo" title="University of Gedo">University of Gedo</a> which also has a campus at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Buulo_Haawo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Buulo Haawo (page does not exist)">Buulo Haawo</a>. </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1088965794">@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .columns-start .column{float:left;min-width:20em}.mw-parser-output .columns-2 .column{width:50%}.mw-parser-output .columns-3 .column{width:33.3%}.mw-parser-output .columns-4 .column{width:25%}.mw-parser-output .columns-5 .column{width:20%}}</style><div class="columns-start columns-3"><div class="column"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Adayle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Adayle (page does not exist)">Adayle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anoole" class="mw-redirect" title="Anoole">Anoole</a></li> <li><a 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"The Somali National Army: An Assessment [2016]". <i>Defense & Security Analysis</i>. <b>35</b> (2): 216. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1080%2F14751798.2019.1600805">10.1080/14751798.2019.1600805</a>. <a href="/wiki/S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:159442854">159442854</a>.</cite><span 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